Prevalence of Trichomonas vaginalis infection in symptomatic adolescent females presenting to a pediatric emergency department

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 763-766

  Goyal, Monika ^a,b   Hayes, Katie ^b   McGowan, Karin L ^a   Fein, Joel A ^a,b   Mollen, Cynthia ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DISEASE; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; EMERGENCY PATIENT; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZED ADOLESCENT; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; LOWER ABDOMINAL PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS; TRICHOMONIASIS; UROGENITAL TRACT DISEASE; VAGINA DISCHARGE;

ADOLESCENT; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRICHOMONAS VAGINITIS; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960478521     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2011.01111.x     Document Type: Article

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